Aristide Marie's rare 1922 Biography of Petrus Borel

 Petrus Borel: Le Lycanthrope; son vie et son oeuvre, suivi d'une bibliographie [Petrus Borel: The Lycanthrope; His Life and his Work, Followed by a Bobliographie], by Aristide Marie. 1922. Editions "La Force Françase": Paris. Softcover octavo w/plastic archival sleeve, 208 pp. No. 119 of Limited Edition of 505 copies. With light annotations by previous reader on back flyleaf.

Aristide Marie was one of the most active historians of the Romanticist avant-garde during the modernist period, and this, the second biography of Borel to be published (7 decades after Claretie's) was both partly prompted by, and contributed to the interest in Borel and the Bouzingo stirred up by Dada, nascent Surrealism, and other Modernist avant-gardes drawing inspiration from the group. That this interest still, as always, remained limited to the most intense corners of the avant-garde is evidenced by the fact that it was still produced in only 500 copies, one of the smallest editions that could be contracted to a commercial printer.